DO you know a young aspiring archaeologist who could help dig up prehistoric artefacts right here in Wiltshire? Entries close tomorrow (Sunday) for the Dig It! competition, which will see three eight-16-year-olds invited to join a team from the University of Reading as they try to uncover more about the UK’s biggest Neolithic henge, Marden Henge in the Vale of Pewsey.

A competition run by the national Young Archaeologists’ Club is offering three youngsters the chance to join an expedition on Sunday, July 16. In 2015 a rare and well-preserved 4,000 year-old building floor was discovered at Marden Henge and, this year, diggers will be looking to explore the area in more detail with the help of local youngsters.

During their Dig It! excavation day the young winners will dig, wash finds, and learn what being an archaeologist is really like. Each winner will also receive a bag of archaeological tools complete with their own trowel.

Nicky Milsted, from the Council for British Archaeology, said: “Our Dig It! with YAC excavation competition provides an amazing and unique opportunity for interested young people to do real archaeology on real excavation sites. I’m really looking forward to finding out what they discover on site this year.”

Marden Henge lies midway between Avebury Stone Circle and Stonehenge, an area renowned for its Neolithic history. In 2015’s dig, flint flakes, bone needles and pottery still lay where they had been left thousands of years ago on the floor surface, and this year’s team will be hoping for more fascinating finds.

Enter online at www.yac-uk.org by Sunday, July 2.